Stage Name: Lana Turner
Birth Name: Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner
Occupation: Movie Actress /Pinup Model
Years Active: 1937–1991
Notable Works: Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Johnny Eager (1942), and all her Clark Gable movies; The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and Peyton Place (1957)
Date/Place Birth: February 8, 1920 (or 1921); Wallace, Idaho, United States
Date/Death/Cause: She died at the age of 74 in 1995 of complications from throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1992 and which she had been battling ever since, at her home in Century City, Los Angeles, California. She was, until her death, a very heavy smoker.
Spouse(s); She herself famously said, "My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.": Artie Shaw (1940–1940); Stephen Crane (1942–1943, 1943–1944); Henry J. Topping (1948–1952); Lex Barker (1953–1957); Fred May (1960–1962); Robert Eaton (1965–1969); Ronald Dante (1969–1972).
Short Biography: At the age of 10, Lana Turner moved from her native Idaho to Los Angeles with her mother after the robbery and unsolved murder/robbery of her father. She was a gorgeous 17 year old youngster and got her first small part in a 1937 movie called They Won't Forget and series of similar parts following this eventually lead to her notoriety and she became known by a growing audience of admirers as the “sweater girl”.
The most stunning beauty to grace the silver screen in years Lana Turner became a highly popular pin-up girl with GIs during the forties. Her life and film career went through many ups and downs, but over the years she gave some great performances and compiled a bunch of really good movies. Her career actually improved after the 1958 scandal where her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane stabbed and killed Turner's mobster boyfriend,Johnny Stompanato; the judge ruled it self defense.